Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I joined the Royal Shakespeare Co. with no experience whatsoever - I'd never been to a drama school or anything. But I… — Roger Rees Copy Share Image
She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can… — Jia Pingwa Copy Share Image
A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
It would probably astound each of us beyond measure to be let into his neighbors mind and to find how different the… — William James Copy Share Image
Terrestrial scenery is much, but it is not all. Men go in search of it; but the celestial scenery journeys to them;… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Respect your body: you can only climb a mountain if you give your body the attention it deserves. You have all the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Then the wind died down and the air grew warm and the flies awoke and started to drone, and they were a… — J.T. McGowan Copy Share Image
In that tremendous flash of freedom, on my way to do The Thing for the first time, sanctioned by Almighty Harry, I… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer,… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Far away in Montana, hidden from view by clustering mountain-peaks, lies an unmapped northwestern corner- the Crown of the Continent. The water… — George Bird Grinnell Copy Share Image
But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as… — Dylan Lauren Copy Share Image
A photographer who made a picture from a splendid moment, an accidental pose of someone or a beautiful scenery, is the finder… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
The islands above the falls are covered with foliage as beautiful as can be seen anywhere. Viewed from the mass of rock… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple… — Laufey Copy Share Image
No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I have come to see the nonsense of attempting to describe fine scenery. There is no such possibility. If scenery could be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Make excuses to work out. Go for walks and enjoy scenery. You'd be surprised how many calories you can burn during the… — Miesha Tate Copy Share Image
Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In our ascent we were often among the clouds hovering about the mountain, and for a while would be enveloped in fog… — Helen Josephine Sanborn Copy Share Image
It's difficult to find someone better than Milik. However, when a player believes his time at a club is over and he… — Gennaro Gattuso Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
There are cities that get by on their good looks, offer climate and scenery, views of mountains or oceans, rockbound or with… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary… — Mary Wesley Copy Share Image
Travel in car, because you can stop. Air travel any more is a nightmare. I think it's the same for everyone. If… — Steve Kimock Copy Share Image
Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It is the sky that makes the earth so lovely at sunrise, and so splendid at sunset. In the one it breathes… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Whoever would like to look and see what someone is saying behind all the show, glitter, scenery, whatever it may be, and… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
I was shaped by the west and have lived most of my life in it, and nothing would gratify me more than… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
A lot of the movements we do in the gym are things that can be done outside, but we have the benefits… — Harley Pasternak Copy Share Image
